When will you be ready for pandemic-related true crime?
Hello, friends! We usually save our discussion thread for Fridays, but I had a wild schedule this week! So you’re getting the thread today, and a full issue...
Martha Mitchell · Murder Among The Mormons
Plus new books, and how the true-crime boom dilutes the prestige pool
Dropout (Dropout) · Silk Road · Nazis
Also: True crime loses a cult expert
Fred Hampton · John Wayne Gacy · Stolen
Plus a heist-iversary and a Gay/Lewinsky convo
Should We Be Mad At Ryan Murphy?
“Fuck Ryan Murphy for making Richard Ramirez into a horror chic character,” a friend texted me last weekend. He was bingeing American Horror Story and had...
FKA twigs · Britney Spears · Stan Lee
Also: A doc about transitional housing you can watch on your lunch break
Official Unsolved Mysteries Pod · 120 Executions · Allen v. Farrow
Plus a plethora of hip-hop stories
Mad Max · Cecil Hotel · Robert Maxwell
Plus: A look back at a true-crime classic
Anna Sorokin · IDCon · Top "Dateline"s
Plus Woody Allen, Tekashi69, Soledad O'Brien, and a book review
If it please the court, Exhibit B.
Yeah, so I launched a true-crime bookshop. “You WHAT?!” …I know! I still can’t decide if this is the best or the dumbest thing I ever did, so let’s go with...
Michael Cohen · Keith Morrison · LuLaRoe
Plus: Remember 90s band Sublime? No, not 311. No, not Sugar Ray.
Assassins · Crime Scene · The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Plus murder houses and hip-hop lawsuits
Pam Hupp · QAnon · Cell Phones
Plus: Come hang out with me!
Allen v. Farrow · Andy Mills Ouster · Abolishing The Death Penalty
Plus black-market gold, a Village real-estate grift, and more
What Case Should Be The Next 'Surviving R. Kelly'?
You know the story by now: though R. Kelly had faced allegations of rape for years, it wasn’t until an FBI agent watched Surviving R. Kelly that law...
Bill Cosby · Delphi Murders · Crater Lake
Plus: The headlines that'll eventually be ripped from
Rae Carruth · Rosa Jimenez · Real Estate
Plus cop games, the other Charles Bronson, and more
Jack Palladino · Marilyn Manson · T.I.
Plus: You'll never look at spam calls the same way again
January Bonus Review: We Keep The Dead Close
It's a great book, until...it isn't, but that shift is worth unpacking too.
The Investigation · The Widower · The Chippendales
Plus Takeshi69 and the Canadian Mob. Must be Monday.